WESTERN AND SOUTHERN FINANCIAL GROUP MASTERS

August 11, 2003

Carlos Moya

MODERATOR: Questions, please.

CARLOS MOYA: Yeah, is a bad loss. I play very bad today. You know, lately I lost few first-round matches and I not full of confident. But I have to keep working for the US Open. And now is a low point in my year, but, you know, the year is very long and you have up and down. Now I little bit down, but still have to work really hard to get ready for US Open.

CARLOS MOYA: Yeah, I think so. I mean, he's very tricky. He has this kind of forehand slice, and he covers the net very well. At the end, I have chances to break back for 5-all, but today he played better than me. I mean, is nothing I can say about that.

CARLOS MOYA: Yeah. But, I mean, I was not confident. He was playing well, and he knew what to do. As you said, he didn't do anything special, but it was enough to beat me.So that's it. And I have no confident right now. I gonna practice hard to get ready.

CARLOS MOYA: Yeah, probably. Yeah, after 1-all in the third, then he won four straight games very quick. I mean, when you have no confident, you don't know exactly what to do. I was trying to put the ball in and, I mean, I couldn't. So he was smart playing today, and, you know, is nothing I can say.

CARLOS MOYA: Well, right now, every week has been different. I mean, the week right after I won the tournament, I didn't have time to get used to the court, and still I lost a very tight match. Then Montreal was the first hard court tournament. I didn't feel the ball very well. But now I got some practice, and there is no excuse. The match I lost today, I played very poor today. I mean, I have no excuse today, and I have no reason that I play that bad.

CARLOS MOYA: Yeah, I had the chances still. At 5-4, 15-40 I played a good ball, he made unbelievable volley, and then he went for the second serve. It was his game, then anything could happen. But, still, as I said, I wasn't confident. I mean, I just try to play and try to put the ball in and... But I could not do even that. So for some time I haven't been able to do anything, so I just try to keep going and, you know, just to put the ball in.

CARLOS MOYA: Yeah, it's very disappointing. I mean, being the defending champion and having the support from the crowd, I mean, a country which is not mine, I mean, it's really bad to lose that match. But, I mean, there are 25 tournaments in a year, and sometimes you don't play well; sometimes you do. So now we start to play -- not to play that well. But I wish that I am gonna be ready for The Open.